2 Kings 6:25

New Century Version

There was a shortage of food in Samaria. It was so bad that a donkey’s head sold for about two pounds of silver, and half of a pint of dove’s dung sold for about two ounces of silver.

Cross References

Genesis 41:55

The time of hunger became terrible in all of Egypt, and the people cried to the king for food. He said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to meet Ahab. By this time there was no food in Samaria.

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city. There was no food for the people to eat.

2 Kings 6:26

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman yelled out to him, “Help me, my master and king!”

2 Kings 7:12

The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I’ll tell you what the Arameans are doing to us. They know we are starving. They have gone out of the camp to hide in the field. They’re saying, ‘When the Israelites come out of the city, we’ll capture them alive. Then we’ll enter the city.’ ”

2 Kings 7:4

There is no food in the city. So if we go into the city, we will die there. If we stay here, we will die. So let’s go to the Aramean camp. If they let us live, we will live. If they kill us, we die.”

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go into the country, I see people killed by swords. If I go into the city, I see much sickness, because the people have no food. Both the priests and the prophets have been taken to a foreign land.’ ”

Jeremiah 32:24

“Look! The enemy has surrounded the city and has built roads to the top of the walls to capture it. Because of war, hunger, and terrible diseases, the city will be handed over to the Babylonians who are attacking it. You said this would happen, and now you see it is happening.

Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city; there was no food for the people to eat.

Ezekiel 4:17

This is because bread and water will be hard to find. The people will be shocked at the sight of each other, and they will become weak because of their sin.

Leviticus 26:26

There will be very little bread to eat; ten women will be able to cook all your bread in one oven. They will measure each piece of bread, and you will eat, but you will still be hungry.